🧴 “Rhode to Riches” — Hailey Bieber’s $1B deal. The NYT’s Alexa+. Supreme Tariff Court.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
Elf Beauty is buying Hailey Bieber’s Rhode for $1B… with a trick from Elvis Presley.
The NYT hooked up with Amazon… Because Alexa+ wants to be the 1st *premium* chatbot.
And Trump’s tariffs were ruled illegal… The Trade War is hitting the Supreme Court.
Plus, the hardest word in the Spelling Bee… Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (real place, real word)
$ELF $NYT $AMZN
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday, May 30th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Oh, besties. Jack and I are about to make you the most interesting person at Sunday brunch, baby. Because this episode's a T-boy? It's a T-boy. It's the best one we've ever done. Jack, three |
| 0:21.4 | stories for today's show. What do we get on the pod? For our first story, Amazon and the New York |
| 0:26.1 | Times just hooked up for an unexpected AI deal. That's right. We're about to get the first ever |
| 0:31.0 | premium chatbot, Alexa Plus. For our second story, after a couple shocking developments, Trump's trade war is about to go to the Supreme Court. |
| 0:40.3 | We got checks and balances on the pod today, and what this huge ruling means for stocks, the economy, and Barbie dolls. |
| 0:47.3 | For our third and final story, Haley Bieber's skincare brand, Road, was just bought by Elf Beauty for $1 billion. |
| 0:56.2 | Because Haley Biber used the same strategy as Elvis Presley, |
| 0:59.9 | a greatest hits album. |
| 1:01.8 | But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:03.9 | What an M-I-X of stories, Jack. |
| 1:06.7 | Love the mix. |
| 1:07.3 | V-I-C-T-O-R-Y. |
| 1:11.6 | Ding, ding, ding! |
| 1:12.3 | That spells victory for the spelling bee. |
| 1:14.9 | Because last night was the 100th Spelling Bee tournament. |
| 1:19.5 | The finale was last night. |
| 1:20.8 | We were watching 243 spellers, 4,072 words, 6 or 5 vowels, and one big winner. But here's the wild twist that we noticed |
| 1:30.3 | as we watched this year's spelling bee. Geography. That's right. In order to win the spelling bee, |
| 1:36.0 | you got to know geography. Because a little known secret about spelling bees, the hardest words |
| 1:41.1 | to spell are the places. Yeah, the places. There's no root word, no language of origin. |
| 1:47.0 | You just got to memorize the map, baby. |
| 1:49.1 | Like Mississippi. |
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